Patrick has been awarded the Germund Dahlquist prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for his "broad, creative, and groundbreaking contributions to numerical solutions of partial differential equations, and the design and analysis of algorithms and software for scientific computing".
Patrick is a Professor in the Numerical Analysis group here in Oxford Mathematics and a Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College. His work focuses on the numerical solution of partial differential equations, with a particular focus on finite element methods, bifurcation analysis of nonlinear PDE, adjoint techniques, their application and automation, and preconditioners and fast solvers. He has applied numerical techniques to various applications in the areas of mixtures, renewable energy, cardiac electrophysiology, glaciology, magnetohydrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and liquid crystals.
Patrick obtained his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Galway, and his doctorate from Imperial College London in 2010. He has been awarded several prizes so far in his career including a 2021 Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society.
Patrick is also a very popular lecturer here in Oxford Mathematics and you can see him in action below Introducing algorithms to our first year students.
Germund Dahlquist (1925-2005) was a Swedish mathematician known primarily for his early contributions to the theory of numerical analysis as applied to differential equations.